Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will finally compel the University of North Carolina and the rest of American higher education to halt the pervasive practice of racial and ethnic discrimination in admissions. Academic leaders should have ended this obnoxious and counterproductive policy on their own, decades ago. It shouldn’t have required lawsuits by...
Prejudice is morally wrong. It’s also immensely foolish, producing self-inflicted wounds for individuals, companies, and communities. If you refuse to hire certain workers because of their sex, race, or religion, you will end up with a less-productive workforce and a less-profitable enterprise. If you refuse to befriend people who are different from you in these...
Most North Carolinians continue to support affirmative action when it is precisely defined as expanding access to the applicant pool for jobs, contracts, and admissions.
When supposedly neutral news media described Sen. Phil Berger’s proposal as a “ban on affirmative action,” they were either exhibiting their ignorance or willfully misleading their audiences.
While there are several things that can be said about UNC professor Gene Nichol’s article on critical race theory, there is one, in particular, I find intellectually dishonest: the descriptive claim that “in North Carolina twice as many blacks as whites live in poverty.” The issue with the assertion is that it is incorrect. In...
Ten months into the state's COVID-19 response, one type of alcohol-serving business remains closed.
When employers, governments, schools, and other institutions use race or ethnicity to decide who will be hired or served, that is discrimination. Depending on context, it is either flatly illegal or at least fraught with peril.
In addition to being immoral, discrimination is foolishly self-destructive. It keeps companies from hiring the best people and serving the most customers. It throttles innovation. It makes us poorer.
Last summer, Google fired a software engineer named James Damore for posting a controversial memo on an in-house message board. This week, Damore and another former Google employee filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and “all Google employees discriminated against … due to their perceived conservative political views … their male gender …...
Those who see "no room" for discrimination "of any kind" fail to see that they practice discrimination every day in many ways.
We’ve been witness to a level of ideologically driven mass media hysteria in recent weeks unseen since the Duke lacrosse rape hoax story. I’m talking about the General Assembly’s nullification, via House Bill 2, of Charlotte’s ordinance designed to legislate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender discrimination. The Charlotte ordinance, which was defeated in March...
